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In 2010 there was a striking visual representation of transactions of Australian indigenous testimony beyond the nation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. As part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings in Canada, the gallery featured Cathy Busby’s installation WE ARE SORRY, which presen...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:370861 2023-05-15T16:16:35+02:00 Sorry business Whitlock, Gillian Alexandra Schultheis Moore Sophia A. McClennen 2016-01-01 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:370861 eng eng Routledge doi:10.4324/9781315778372.ch18 orcid:0000-0002-6728-0305 1200 Arts and Humanities 3300 Social Sciences Book Chapter 2016 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315778372.ch18 2020-08-05T16:30:53Z In 2010 there was a striking visual representation of transactions of Australian indigenous testimony beyond the nation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. As part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings in Canada, the gallery featured Cathy Busby’s installation WE ARE SORRY, which presented the text of the apology of the Australian prime minister to the Stolen Generations in Australia alongside the apology to the First Nations on the issue of the Residential Schools in Canada, both offered in 2008. The installation mirrored an earlier synchronic display at the Laneways Commissions project in Melbourne in 2009, where WE ARE SORRY was projected onto the exterior of a power substation. This graphic statement of the proximity of testimonial cultures across two settler nations in the recent past maps ideoscapes and mediascapes that connect testimonial narratives beyond the nation – Busby’s artwork literally projects a response to indigenous testimony onto these geographically remote public spaces to signify a shared history of racialized child removal and founding violence. In this way, it creates a transnational site of witness and an imaginative reconceptualization of space that projects an ethics of witness into the public spaces of very different kinds. Book Part First Nations The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Canada The Gallery ENVELOPE(-86.417,-86.417,72.535,72.535) |
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In 2010 there was a striking visual representation of transactions of Australian indigenous testimony beyond the nation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. As part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings in Canada, the gallery featured Cathy Busby’s installation WE ARE SORRY, which presented the text of the apology of the Australian prime minister to the Stolen Generations in Australia alongside the apology to the First Nations on the issue of the Residential Schools in Canada, both offered in 2008. The installation mirrored an earlier synchronic display at the Laneways Commissions project in Melbourne in 2009, where WE ARE SORRY was projected onto the exterior of a power substation. This graphic statement of the proximity of testimonial cultures across two settler nations in the recent past maps ideoscapes and mediascapes that connect testimonial narratives beyond the nation – Busby’s artwork literally projects a response to indigenous testimony onto these geographically remote public spaces to signify a shared history of racialized child removal and founding violence. In this way, it creates a transnational site of witness and an imaginative reconceptualization of space that projects an ethics of witness into the public spaces of very different kinds. |
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